The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-23

THE Christian and monarchical world
counts among its combined regning
families 40S princes. If the female
contingent was taken into account, this
figure would almost be doubled. The
most fourishing dynasty is that of Hol-
stein, which holds the thrones of Rus
STA, Denmark, Greece, and Oldenburg,
and numbers fifty-two princes, twenty
five grand dukes, two king, and an
emperor. Next to it is the house of
Stettin, uniting the royal crowns of
Saxony, Great Britain, Portugal, and
Belgium, besides the ducal and grand
ducal scepters of Weimar, Altenburg,
Coburg- Gotha, and Meiningen. The
Burbons, with their forty-seven princes.
have held Sicily, Parma, and Spain.
More numerous than the Hohenzol-
lerns, the Hesses, and the house of
Savoy are the imperial Hapsburg Lor-
raine, with their thirty-three archdukes,
and the old race Of Wittlesbach, num-
bering twentythree princes of or in
Bavaria, distinction to which great
Importance is attached. The once
reigning families mediatized since the
Congress of Vienna in 1915, are repre-
scented by 734 princes, and these have
retained but small portion of their
privileges.
CAPT. KING, author of "The Colonel's
Daughter" in his brochure entitled
Campaigning with Crook" tells an
amusing and characteristic anecdote of
Col. Royal, now commanding the
Fourth Cavalry, but then Lieutenant
Colonel of the Third. He says: a
story is going the rounds of the camp
which does us all good even in this
dismal weather. Col. Royal ordered
one of his battalion commanders to
put that battalion in camp on the other
side of the river, facing east A promi-
nent and well-known habit of the
subordinate officer was q tendency to
split hairs, discuss orders, and, in fine,
to make trouble where there was
ghost of a chance of so doing unpun-
ished. Presently the Colonel saw that
his instructions were not being carried
out, and, not being in a mood for in
direct action, he put spurs to his horse,
dashed through the stream and refined
up alongside the victim, with: Didn't
order you, sir, to put your battalion
in camp along the river, facing eastP
yes, sir. But this isn't river; it's
only creek Greek, sir Greek,
sir! What do you mean, sir? It's a
rivera river from this time forth, by
order, sir. Now do as l tell you.
There was no further delay"
TELL it in Gath, proclaim it in AS
kelon, shout it from the housetops-
Chicago has had an honest man. But,
alas! he is dead. He was lonesome,
became depressed, and in fit of des-
peration committed suicide. The poor
fellows name was J. H. Mcknight, aud
among his effects was found this curl
Gus letter:
ITO the Coroner:
Every man is born to cut figure,
and have cut mine. have bulldozed
everything that has got in my way. 1
have been big bug on this earth while
l have been here. l am going to try
the spirit world. 1 have always been 4
square and honest man, and expect to
be so in the world to come. There is
nothing that makes one man greater
than another but honesty, and if / find
anybody in the other world that amt
honest expect to cuss him out and
pass on. There is q great spirit that
rules the universe, and that spirit is
honesty. George Washington was q
great man. WhyP Because ne was
honest. Abraham Lincoln was q great
man. Why? Because he was an hon
est man. Honesty is all in this world
and all in the world to come. Bob In
gersoll is the smartest man in America
and but few people know it. He is too
smart to believe that something can be
made of nothing. He is too smart to
believe that the Being that is repre-
sented as being Love would consign his
creatures to everlasting fire. There is
great spirit that rules this universe,
but who is he and where did he come
from? Let him come up and give an
account of himself. How did he get
his position? Ho seems to be big
bug"